Most of have worked during the weekend at some point or the other. Because you got paged or in times of heavy workload. Not talking about those situations. A weekend page may not happen, & even in crunch time as long as you complete your deliverables managers don't force you to work on Sundays. But can a company legally instruct an employee to come in on a Sunday ? Btw, in case anyone is curious, this is not something that's happening at Microsoft. Just curious.
Whether you want a job that requires Sunday’s or not is its own matter, but legal are you kidding? What privileged world do you live in where you think Sunday’s off is an entitlement.
Salaried or not, an employer can assign an employee any work hours, within the limits of the employment contract (if there is one). Assuming your contract doesn't say anything about that, if you choose not to show up for your assigned hours, it's just like any job -- it could be grounds for dismissal or other internal penalty. The only difference is an hourly employee must be paid overtime for any hours worked over 40 for the week. If you're a salaried employee the company can make you work any number of hours. If your employer makes you work hours you don't like, or penalizes you for refusing to work hours you don't agree with, you could always file a suit against your employer and try your luck in court.
Think before you post! Beware - your manager might be reading this too and your next work assignment coming to you on Dec 31 11:59 p.m.
When you are paid hundreds of thousands a year with crazy extravagant benefits and comp packages and normal wlb that only maybe 5% of the country enjoys, show up on Sunday with a smile if you are asked to. Not exactly a big deal.
if u dont like where u r just leave, y make it so hard on urself?
OP has clearly mentioned that it is not happening at their current workplace. This post is not beneficial whatsoever. They’re just curious to understand the legalities and the culture of the work world.
Reading is easy. Understanding is hard.
I’ve worked like 28 days straight once at a startup. They implicitly didnt say i have to come in but they gave us work with impossible deadline and our team had to do it. So if one of us skipped weekends we woulndve been screwed.
Employment in the US is a voluntary contract by both parties, unless you’ve signed something else specifically outlining your employment agreement. So the company can ask you to do whatever it wants, and as an employee you can decide if you agree...but either side can break the agreement if the other is not holding up their side.
Salaried employees aren't supposed to covers jobs meant to be done by multiple workers. Barring exceptions, they shouldn't become a means for cost-savings and chronic under-staffing.
“Aren’t supposed”...”shouldn’t”....sadly that’s not what happens in the real word.
On a Sunday when you go out you will see that everywhere you go, there are people doing their jobs at restaurants, grocery stores, or are driving trucks and trains etc. Unless you are God- “And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.”
Those guys have different days off, or generally different work patterns. A a full time employee I expect to put in 40h/week (5 days) if it's not a holiday. Any deviation from that it's an exception that I voluntarily put it and should be rewarded accordingly.
Not in Switzerland or Germany, even our supermarkets are closed on Sundays and boy how the retailers would want them open
So, is it a capitalist or a socialist who would make people work on weekends?
Socialist. Because the free market doesn't point a gun to your head and tell you to do something, pulling the trigger if you don't comply.
Free market just threatens you with loss of job which results in loss of insurance for you and your family due to high insurance costs.
Yes, as an exempt, salaried employee you can be asked to work pretty much any time. Sunday off is not the law of the land here.